Napoleon with Horse Bronze & Marble by Angiolo Vannetti (1881-1962)
Our group sculpture in patinated bronze and marble depicts a windswept Napoleon and his horse on snow covered ground. Height is approximately 18 1/2 inches.
The artist graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1900. He exhibited in Milan, Brussels, Paris and elsewhere early in his career. In the 1920s he worked and travelled throughout Asia, including China, Vietnam and Japan.
He was the architect of various works in Libya during the Italian colonial period. Among them, the bronze statue of the Gazelle fountain in the city of Tripoli, built in 1932 and disappeared in the night between 2 and 3 November 2014 ,and two marble reliefs of the fountain dedicated to Garibaldi in the "Garibaldi" settler village, currently Daphnia near Misurata in Tripolitania, built in 1939 and inaugurated in March 1940. In 1955, his statue in honor of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in the city of Panama, subsequently destroyed in 1987 by the followers of General Manuel Noriega [9]
He was a regular collaborator of the architect Giovanni Michelazzi and also worked in South America. In Italy his works are present in collections and museums (including the Gallery of Modern Art in Florence and the Michelangelo Buonarroti Birthplace Museum in Caprese Michelangelo ) as well as in squares, gardens and palaces (including the monuments to the fallen of 1926 Dicomano and in the Parco delle Rimembranze in Florence, the bronze sculpture on a serena stone base The two fawns from 1940 in the Horticulture garden in Florence, the three marble bas-relief medallions in the meeting room in the Casa del Mutilato in Florence.
